Comparative Study of Mantrashastra

SR No.: 006575
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mohanlal Bhagwandas Jhaveri
Publisher: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab
Publication Year: 1944
Total Pages: 376
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, L000, & L020
File Size: 21 MB

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JAIN MANTRAVADA AND CAITYAVASIS: HADI MATA
compared to Samayācāra which has been propounded by Sri Sankarācārya in his famous hymn 'Saundaryalahari'. His other works propounding Samayikamata are Anandalahari, Prapancasāra, Lalitātriśatī Bhāṣya as has been stated by the learned author of 'Sakta Sampradaya' in Gujarati (See P. 33 and P. 100). It must be noted however that Panchatattva worship is not countenanced in Jainācāra in any form whatsoever. At P. 69 Sakta Sampradaya it is said "only in Jainācāra these things i. e. Panchatattvas have no place."
HADI MATA
Strictly speaking there are no distinctions made amongst Jains in respect of Matas based on the worship of different deities or on different Mantras as they begin with the letters 'Ka' or 'Ha' etc. As however in what is termed the Jaina Bīja 'Arham' the principal letter is 'Ha' and because 'Hrim' is considered an equally important Bija amongst Jains indicating 24 Tirthankaras with their male and female attendant deities and is the central Bija in Rşimandala Yantra and because 'Hrim' is also the 'Ekākṣarī Mantra' of Sri Padmavati identified with Tripura the deity principally worshipped in Hadi Mata (See P. 53 ante) and Kashmere Sampradaya and because in Surimantra, the principal Mantra amongst the Jains, the Bijas adopted along with 'Om' and 'Hrim' and 'Arham' and not any Bija beginning with the letter 'Ka' the Jains may be generally speaking said to follow Hadi Mata without thereby suggesting acceptance thereof with all its implications. EARLIER MANTRASIDDHAS
The name of Sri Gautamaswami stands at the forefront of Mantrasiddhas as he was the first Ganadhara of Sri Mahāvīra and composed Sūrimantra under his direction. He was possessed of all kinds of miraculous powers (Labdhis). Exercising one of them he flew up the Aṣṭāpada Mountain unapproachable by ordinary beings, and made
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*See Nirvāņakalika P. 7 for principal rules of Jainacăra. Digambara Jains also hold identical views on Mantra and Acāra, see the article by Pt. K. Bhujabali Śāstri entitled Jain 'Mantra-sastra', Jain Siddhanta Bhaskara Vol. IV, 3, P. 135 ff.